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Scale-up studies for intensified production of biodiesel from used cooking oil

Tsaoulidis, D; Farooqui, F; Ortega, EG; Angeli, P; (2019) Scale-up studies for intensified production of biodiesel from used cooking oil. In: Proceedings of the IPRoPBio First Workshop: Valuable products from residual biomasses towards a greener society (ProGreS): Biomass Selection, Characterization and Valorization. (pp. pp. 77-80). Institute of Chemical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences: Sofia, Bulgaria. Green open access

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Abstract

In this paper the effect of channel size on the transesterification of used cooking oil (UCO) with methanol using KOH as catalyst to produce biodiesel was investigated for capillaries with internal diameter ranging from 1 to 3 mm. A T-junction was used as the mixing zone of the two liquid phases. The effects of different parameters such as, internal diameter, methanol-to-oil molar ratio, reaction time, temperature, and catalyst concentration were investigated. Results showed that the conversion efficiency to biodiesel is increased by decreasing the channel size, whilst the interactions of the other variables are also discussed.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Scale-up studies for intensified production of biodiesel from used cooking oil
Event: IPRoPBio First Workshop: Valuable products from residual biomasses towards a greener society (ProGreS): Biomass Selection, Characterization and Valorization
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.34049/bcc.51.B.021
Publisher version: http://www.bcc.bas.bg/
Language: English
Additional information: This is an Open Access paper published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Chemical Engineering
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10093200
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